On his chest it says “Progress through Training” (he is a project from ABB trainees).
Monday Portrait
The last on the mobile phone SD card: the marble run (a Christmas present for our grandson).
The last on the camera’s SD-card: We went to a bird zoo on the last day of the year.
The worst winter storm in recorded European history was Cyclone Lothar in 1999. In the Black Forest there is a strip of land which was left to heal itself. It’s possible to walk through the area and see what happens if nature is left to do its own thing. In order not to disturb this process visitors are not allowed to walk on the ground but on the raised planks leading through the emerging forest.
My husband’s first name is Lothar so he has a special connection to the area.
There were eight milking maids a-watching out of eight dormer windows.
For Jude’s Twelve Days of Christmas